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I've added a note at the top of Frederick Grinnell to point readers to Frederick Grinnell (biologist); we don't tend to create disambiguation pages for just two people with the same name. Incidentally, a particular welcome if you are in fact Professor Grinnell - Wikipedia always needs experts helping out, although as I'm sure you'll discover, we work on the basis of reliable sources that others can check rather than someone saying "I'm an expert so take my word for it!". You might want to have a read through WP:COI at some point, as it's not encouraged to write about yourself or people you're closely connected to. If I can help in any way, let me know (just leave a message on my talk page) or ask back at the help desk. Regards, and happy editing! BencherliteTalk 22:20, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

November 2010
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Frederick Grinnell (biologist). Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit (and prevents legitimate edits from being mistaken for vandalism). It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. ukexpat (talk) 19:07, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

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November 2012
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OK. Thanks. Fgrinnell (talk) 29 November 2012

The recent change that someone made has left undocumented the second paragraph. Either the specific journal references that were present previously should be added back: − 	Grinnell's scientific work contributed to the discovery of the biological adhesion protein fibronectin and helped to establish the importance of fibronectin in wound repair. Subsequently, his laboratory helped popularize the use of wound exudate to analyze the human wound environment and made the discovery that chronic wounds contain degraded fibronectin and high levels of proteolytic enzymes. His latest research has focused on the biomechanics of fibroblasts interacting with three dimensional collagen matrices.

or the new statement removing the journal referencs but documenting their extent of citations should be restored at the end of the second paragraph.

The papers describing this work have been cited almost 13,000 times.

Thanks. Fgrinnell (talk) 29 November 2012

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